How Did Lincoln Guard The Fugitive Slave Law?

Having learned about victory of Lincoln, southern leaders gathered to discuss the threat to their region. The new president and his party came to power, regardless of the southern states. They were in no way obliged to southerners, and therefore they count on their gratitude was not necessary. Elected (but not yet in position) President Lincoln clearly expressed his attitude toward slavery: he will not let its spread to new lands to the west. For the institution of slavery it was equivalent to the sentence: limited outside the southern states slavery is doomed to slow decline and ultimately - to disappear. Control in this case is equivalent to eradicate. Southerners had no doubt that they are eternal, the worst nightmare embodied in reality - the federal government into the hands of enemies of the abolitionists. As president, Lincoln put his adherents in the Supreme Court. And what decision will take the new judges, when next situation arises, such Dred Scott? How the chief executive of Lincoln will monitor the implementation of state laws. Will he jealously guard the Fugitive Slave Law? And after all he now takes over as chief of the armed forces of the United States. And whether or not to rely on his operative intervention, when suddenly announced the new John Brown? Moreover, Lincoln as party leader will carry out all appointments. Pray tell, will there be new postmasters Republicans to deal with the flow of seditious …show more content…
And December 20, 1860 South Carolina decided to carry out the threat. It canceled the ratification of the constitution and announced the break with the rest of the states. By February 1861 South Carolina has joined by six states of the Lower South. This seven formed a new alliance called the Confederate States of America. They adopted their own interim constitution and elected provisional president - Jefferson